Oh Ian! I can see that you are so weary with all this newfangled degeneracy which has corrupted the entire entertainment industry. The industry is shot through with corruption and low-grade profanity, scarcely a kind word to be found. Perhaps with persistence, we can bring back the good old days and make America great again.
Peter was a top drawer actor, I've never seen him portray a character badly,in every film he was always brilliant even if it was a cheap budget film his brilliance always shined brighter than all the other actors in the film..R.I.P true gentleman.
#Maria Shelly I completely agree BUT what pisses me off(sorry for swearing)is they ignore him in Dr Who lore!!Mr Cushing starred in two TV films, Paul McGann stared in one YET Paul goes downs in folk lore!!!I do not get it xxx
Peter Cushing not only fits Doyle's description of Holmes, he had the energy of the character. Rathbone, Plummer and Brett among others were good, but after I saw Mr. Cushing and Christopher Lee in the Hammer Films' Hound Of The Baskervilles, I thought he was the best.
From everything I have read, Peter Cushing was the sweetest man ,loving husband and gentleman. Thus he is my favourite Holmes for his warmth and manners. Understand the great affection and respect for for Brett and the production values at Granada TV. Holmes and the magnificent Dr Watson are two of the greatest characters in the anuls of literature.
Peter Cushing's best friend in real life was Christopher Lee and apparently, when they got together they would spend hours sitting in Cushing's private cinema watching Looney Toons Cartoons. 😊 Also, Cushing was a collector and paintet of Model Soldiers! 😊😊
@robinhooper2190..I totally agree. Peter Cushing was the definitive Holmes. Rathbone was good until they kept pushing him into out of the 19th Century and into modern day movies. I liked Rathbone in Hound Of the Baskervilles.. However, Cushing's over the top hyper take on Holmes in the Hammer Films movie was much better. His long face and underfed demeanor fit my idea of what Holmes really looked like.
I concur if Peter cushing did Do more of these films , he too would be my favorite Though I do watch all of his sherlock Holmes stuff :-) I can't say that for other actors in the said roles apart from my number one and favorite actor of said role basil rathbone, far as I am concerned he is sherlock Holmes:-)
Been an avid Holmes fan since 1967 when I was 9 years old and discovered The Sign of the Four - The Granada Television Productions with Jeremy Brett are by far my favorites but Peter Cushing TRULY does the detective justice - MUCH kudos
I've got the DVD collection of the surviving episodes from this series. Peter Cushing was as good a Holmes as he was in Hammer Films' lush 1959 production of The Hound Of The Baskervilles (with Christopher Lee), and of course Cushing was simply good in everything he ever did.
Three things I feel were sad we never got in this life when it comes to movies: 1) A Ray Harryhausen produce War of the Worlds. He had a concept, but never was able to work on it. 2) That we went through the age of Black Exploitation films without one made about Yasuke the Black Samurai, a historical figure. 3) That for all their greatness and friendship, we had two legends like Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee walking this Earth, who played Sherlock Holmes in various movies, yet never worked together to duke each other as Holmes and Moriarty. How crazy would that had been if we had gotten that?
Those who have played Sherlock Holmes since 1893: Charles Brookfield - 1893 William Gillette - 1899-1930 - 1300 Performances over 30 yrs. Sherlock Holmes movie Baffled - 1900 Silent/Short - Max Goldberg John F. Preston - 1900 Charles Rice - 1904 Karoly Baumann - 1905 Maurice Costello - 1905 Viggo Larsen - 1908 Alwin NeuB - 1908, 1911, 1914 Otto Lagoni - 1910 Holger Rasmussen - 1911 Mack Sennett - 1911-1912 George Treville - 1912 Harry Benham - 1913 James Bragington - 1914 Francis Ford - 1914 H.A. Saintbury - 1916 Hugo Fink - 1917 Sam Robinson - 1918 Eille Norwood - 1921 Silent short movie - The Dying Detective Burt Lytell - 1921 Dennis Neillson-Terry - 1921 John Barrymore - 1922 Hamilton Deane - 1923-1932 Tod Slaughter - 1928, 1930 Richard Gordon - 1930-1933, 1936 Clive Brook - 1929/1930/1932 Arthur Wontner - 1931- 1937 - Movie Series Raymond Massey - 1931 Robert Rendel - 1932 Reginald Owen - 1933 Felix Alymer - 1933 Louis Hector - 1934-1935, 1937 Bruno Guttner - 1937, 1939, 1942-1943 Orson Welles - 1938 Basil Rathbone - 1939-1946 Cedric Hardwick - 1945 Tom Conway - 1947 Howard Marion-Crawford - 1948 John Stanley - 1948-1949 Alan Napier - 1949 John Longden - 1951 Laidman Browne - 1951 Carleton Hobbs - 1952-1969 Ronald Howard - 1954 (39 episodes) Sir John Gielgud - 1954-1955 Peter Cushing - 1959, 1968, 1984 Christopher Lee - 1962, 1970, 1992 Douglas Wilmer - 1964 John Neville - 1965, 1970, 1978 Robert Stephens - 1970 Stewart Granger - 1972 John Cleese - 1973 Larry Hagman - 1974 Robert Powell - 1974 Rolf Becker - 1974 John Wood - 1974-1975 Leonard Nimoy - 1976 Kevin McCarthy - 1977 Roger Moore - 1976 Nicol Williamson - 1976 Christopher Plummer - 1977 Peter Cook - 1977 Paxton Whitehead - 1978 Geoffrey Whitehead - 1979-1980 Keith Mitchell - 1979 Graham Armitage - 1979-1980, 1985 Charlton Heston - 1980 Frank Langella - 1980 Vasily Livanov - Russian TV - 1979-1981, 1983 & 1986 John Moffatt - 1981 Guy Henry - 1982 Tom Baker - 1982 Ian Richardson - 1983 Peter O’Toole - 1983 (animated TV films - Australian) Jeremy Brett - 1984-1994 Nicholas Rowe - 1984 Guy Rolfe - 1984 Dinsdale Landen - 1987 Tim Pigott-Smith - 1987 Anthony Higgins - 1987 Michael Pennington - 1987 Roger Rees - 1988 Ron Moody - 1988-1989 Clive Merrison - 1989-1998, 2002, 2004, 2008-2010 Edward Woodward - 1990 Simon Callow - 1990 Richard E. Grant 1992 Robert Powell - 1993 Patrick McNee - 1993 Anthony Higgins - 1993 1998-2019: John Gilbert - Episodes 1-18 Lawrence Albert - Episode 20 John Patrick Lowrie - Episodes 21-65 & 67-current Dennis Bateman - Episode 66 Jason Gray-Stanford - 1999-2001 - Animation for Kids Matt Frewer - 2000-2001 Joaquim de Almeida - 2001 Richard Roxburgh - 2002 James D’Arcy - 2002 Andrew Sachs - 2004 Rupert Everett - 2004 Jonathan Pryce - 2007 Javier Marzan - 2007 Roger Llewellyn - 2009 Ben Syder - 2010 Johnny Lee Miller - 2012-2019 Benjamin Lawlor - 2013 Igor Petrenko - Russian TV Series - 2013 Robert Downey Jr. 2009 & 2011 Benedict Cumberbatch - 2010-2016 Nicholas Briggs - 2010-2018 Christian Rode - 2010, 2014 Seamus Dever - 2014 Ian McKellen - 2015 Euan Morton - 2015 Gregory Wooddell - 2015 Paul Andrew Goldsmith - 2015-2016 Ewen Bremner - 2016 Jay Taylor - 2017-2018 Yuko Takeuchi - 2018 (HBO Asia - female ‘Holmes’) Orlando Wells - 2018 Samuel Tady - 2011, 2014, 2017-2018 (Tady Bros. Productions/on YTube) Johnny Depp - 2018 (animation) Will Ferrell - 2018 Nicholas Boulton - 2020 Henry Cavill - 2020 Ethan Bell - 2020 (Fan Film on CZcams) Ethan Thomas Jung - 2020 Fan Adv. (Vagabond Repertory Theater Company-CZcams) This list is not exhaustive. however, these are some of the many actors who have played Sherlock Holmes on stage, screen, radio and TV adaptations.
@@colinglass2749 : I started this project of discovering how many actors had played the Holmes character in 2017/2018. My research came to an end in 2021. In that time I had listened to (radio) and/or watched (TV/movies) soooooooo much Holmes. 1. Baffled 1900 - czcams.com/video/KmffCrlgY-c/video.html - silent film 2. William Gillette - silent 1916 (audio added 1936: czcams.com/video/AklHzlu0KCc/video.html 3. Arthur Wontner 1931 movie: czcams.com/video/tQNU_kwOYNE/video.html 4. John Barrymore - silent 1922 - czcams.com/video/fbcnTt4Bh-s/video.html 5. Otto Lagoni - 1910 - silent - czcams.com/video/2q8qRmvhS0o/video.html
Mr Cushing made a very good Holmes. I really enjoyed this video and hope that I can find more of them with Mr Cushing in them. Thank you for sharing this.
I find the 1960s company of Peter Cushing (Holmes) and Nigel Stock (Watson) more congenial than the more celebrated and lauded 1980s pairing of Jeremy Brett and Edward Hardwicke. Cushing, in particular, is a delight. He embodies Holmes' sharp intelligence perfectly
The thumbnail for this video is a still=frame showing Cushing as Holmes looking through his magnifying glass, with his left eye enlarged from the distortion . . . and this very shot was spoofed in the zany comedy "TOP SECRET!" starring Val Kilmer -- produced and directed by the Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker team that made "AIRPLANE!" and the TV show "POLICE SQUAD" (which spawned the "NAKED GUN" movies). There's an elaborate scene in "TOP SECRET!" where Val Kilmer, as 'Nick Rivers', goes to an old bookstore, I think it was, where Cushing portrayed its proprietor, whom we first see inspecting something with a magnifying glass . . . only for him to pull the glass away, revealing that his enlarged eye actually IS enlarged! The entire scene is supposedly in a foreign, European nation, and the 'language' Cushing speaks is actually spoken backwards, as they filmed the scene in reverse and then played the footage forwards. It was as hilarious as it was brilliant. I suspect that the Z-A-Z guys were inspired by the shot of Cushing as Sherlock, looking through the magnifying lens, when they thought up that similar shot for their comedy.
Not the best Holmes but not shabby, not at all, like his figure for Holmes, lean, could use a little more height, narrow face is spot on. Watson needs work or replacement, not bad but not near the other offerings we've seen. Bruce on, for me is my favorite but still in all there have been some good others. I don't think any yet have done full justice to Morarity, in present time I would be hard pressed to pick someone for the roll. Maybe not show Morarity at all, make him more of a shadowy villain, hidden by read newspapers or such, an overlord presence.
Note how these were shot on video for the interiors but film for the exteriors (the infamous BBC rule- see Monty Python for details ;) It's odd to see Peter Cushing shot in video after watching him on film for so many years. I have a fondness for this era of television, from Doctor who through Masterpiece Theater and Mystery. These British productions shot on video have their own look and texture to them, unmistakable.
Enjoyed this series, as a long standing SH fan of the stories and novels, thanks for sharing it. Re-watched THE WOMAN IN GREEN (1945) with Basil Rathbone, and he's got his cigarette case with him when he visits a bar with inspector Gregson and the bartender lights his cigarette and gives him the matches...later Holmes returns to the same bar with Hillary Brooke and they both smoke cigarettes...and when he goes to her apartment she offers him "Cannabis japonica, an oriental soporific" 😂 so it's not just the BBC and Cushing getting nauseated by the nearly omnipresent pipes, Holmes indulged in all manner of intoxicants, it goes all the way back to Conan Doyle. "I was right, Mr. Holmes, you Are a difficult subject." (the woman in green hypnotist, before the law leads he away) "Thank you."
Peter Cushing was top drawer but Basil Rathbone was the real deal. He managed to develop his character into multiple episodes with the advent of Dr. Moriarty.. and then there was the voice.
Best Sherlock Holmes of all time. First to play Dr. Who. Actor in many of the Hammer Films with Christopher Lee. And his last great screen role in Star Wars. I managed to find 5 episodes on a DVD set. If there are any more, maybe they'll be on U Tube.
Brett borrowed heavily from Cushing, the same tropes, the same mannerisms (they even look alike). But i think Brett accentuated those traits, almost caricaturizing them, and that just made for a more vivid and outstanding Holmes IMO.
20:09 I just got the joke from 1984's Top Secret! scene in the Swedish bookstore. That magnifying glass joke is even more hilarious now, 37 years later...
Man that Watson character just is the glich that ceeps me in a state of wonder what'll follow next ,one even can fill the gap created by only his dredfull name with dust swepped up fresh from the attic.🧟
As a Ballarat boy, it's great to have Mr Holmes point us out on a map. Even if it's not a flattering reference, the Poms did export the cream of the dregs Down Under Ozzie Ozzie Ozzie
Not really dregs in many cases, since people were often transported down under for relatively minor offences by today’s standards, and anyway, it’s probably what produced the characteristically tough and universally admired qualities of you Aussies
@trustydiamond I have no proof, but more than happy to wish to be the ancestor of a "criminal " the stereotype of a father who stole a loaf of bread to feed his children. The working class abandoned in a harsh environment months away from the English aristocracy, who could adapt and learn to make do, or perish, is what made us what we became, IMO.
My great-grandfather Robert, came to Australia from England during the gold-rush in 1852. He left behind a wife in England and never returned. But he met a lady here called Mary and they began a life together, having 6 children. 5 boys and a girl. All of the boys went to the first world war but the two youngest never came back. When my grandfather (who was the youngest of the surviving 4 children) was in his 20s ( the daughter and other two surviving sons were even older), my great-grandparents Robert and Mary finally…married. Yes that’s right, the children (now adults) were all illegitimate until then. His first wife in England had finally died and so he was free to marry my great-grandmother. This was something I discovered when doing a family history. Robert and Mary’s son Walter (my grandfather) passed away in his 70s in 1972. He was a character, hard worker and had no airs and graces. But his wife, my Nanna Wynn, was a bit stuck up and very judgemental. She passed away in 1987, but how I wish she was here now so I could accidentally (on purpose) let it slip that I knew the truth; about her mother and father in law, and that several of her own grandchildren who had children outside of marriage and who were berated by her for it, were not the only ones in the family who had a skeleton in the closet!
Ohh i love Genealogy. But the fact that i don't even know my great grandfather's exact birth year. My grandfather was 1921 born and he was the eldest among 9 children, means my grandfather must've been born between 1890s to 1900s, around same time when Sir Doyle was writing Sherlock holmes short stories in London.
@@yashshah3484 just a little hint…the ‘sir’ in a person’s name ALWAYS goes with the first name not the family name. His name was Arthur Conan-Doyle (though the hyphen is generally not used) So he is referred to as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle or as Sir Arthur, but never ever as Sir Conan Doyle or Sir Doyle as you have. here is some idea for others. The British peerage, in order of precedence is: *duke/duchess: the Duke/Duchess of Somewhere, both addressed as Your Grace. marquess/marchioness: the Marquess/Marchioness of Somewhere, addressed as Lord/Lady Somewhere.* Note that sometimes the French form Marquis is used (though never the feminine French title of Marquise). Marquess is an older and purely English form. earl/countess: the Earl/Countess [of] Titlename, addressed as Lord/Lady Titlename viscount/viscountess: the Viscount/Viscountess [of] Titlename, addressed as Lord/Lady Titlename. baron/baroness: Baron/Baroness Titlename, addressed as Lord/Lady Titlename.* *The titles of duke and marquess are almost invariably territorial, eg Duke of Devonshire, Marquess of Salisbury, etc. The titles of earl, viscount, and baron are most often associated with a territory, eg Earl of Pembroke, but can also be based on a family name, in which case the "of" is dropped, eg Earl Spencer. A baron’s wife is not typically titled a baroness, though she is addressed as Lady Titlename. Only a woman who is a baroness in her own right uses that title.* The next two ranks are not peers, ie they do not sit in the House of Lords: *baronet: addressed as Sir Firstname, his wife as Lady Surname. knight: addressed as Sir Firstname, his wife as Lady Surname; a knighted female is addressed as Dame Firstname, her husband as Mr. Surname, ie he does not share the distinction of his wife. Whereas a baronet title is hereditary, a knighthood is not inherited.* For details on each rank as well as correct forms of address, these sites are recommended: www.debretts.com/forms-of-address/titles.aspx laura.chinet.com//html/titles02.html
Wonderful, Cushing is always a joy to watch, one of several actors who were born to play the Great Detective. A lovely production but I am at a complete loss in trying to understand the purpose of extreme closeups of a face which completely fill the screen. Why go beyond head and shoulders?
I love Peter Cushing and I love his brilliant acting and Scottish accent. He is good at playing Holmes, but Jeremy Brett is the absolute best one. He is Holmes, the definitve Holmes. It is good, I liked it. I remember from my childhood seeing Brett. I did not know his name but I remember him as Sherlock Holmes. Of course, I saw episodes with Peter Cushing and others too. In big films as well.But he is too nice. Holmes was a sociopath he did not treat Watson well. Here there were some minor things like not caring if Watson ate or making him pay but it was not too bad, really. He seemed to be too kind to poor Watson.
That's Nick Tate as James, who also played Eagle pilot Alan Carter on Space: 1999. Good story! I'm guessing it was something made for British television, since it was only 49 minutes, and all the interior shots were on video, while all the exterior shots were on film.
At 10:14, when the schoolgirl testifies, there's a stained glass showing a figure of Justice with all her accoutrements. She is of course blindfolded but it appears loose and it seems her head is tilted back so it looks like she's peeking out from under. Was this done on purpose 🤔 or was the artist just careless? 😄 Then at 17:26, Watson strikes a pose in front of it. 😂
I wish they still produced stuff like this nowadays. (Rather than the current load of degeneracy, where every second word is a profanity).
They have though,young Sherlock Holmes with new stories has been made
Where every other word is a filler word, for example, like, you know, you feel me, basically, you hear me, etc.
Every generation complains about the listless lassitude of its offspring, it has always been so.
Your absolutely correct. Robert Downey Jr as Sherlock Holmes is f***ing joke
Oh Ian!
I can see that you are so weary with all this newfangled degeneracy which has corrupted the entire entertainment industry. The industry is shot through with corruption and low-grade profanity, scarcely a kind word to be found.
Perhaps with persistence, we can bring back the good old days and make America great again.
Peter was a top drawer actor, I've never seen him portray a character badly,in every film he was always brilliant even if it was a cheap budget film his brilliance always shined brighter than all the other actors in the film..R.I.P true gentleman.
Gotta love that Peter Cushing, whether he is playing Doctor Who, Van Helsing, Sherlock Holmes or Governor Tarkin. He's great in everything!
#Maria Shelly I completely agree BUT what pisses me off(sorry for swearing)is they ignore him in Dr Who lore!!Mr Cushing starred in two TV films, Paul McGann stared in one YET Paul goes downs in folk lore!!!I do not get it xxx
Princess Leah did not care much for Governor Tarkin.
Peter Cushing not only fits Doyle's description of Holmes, he had the energy of the character. Rathbone, Plummer and Brett among others were good, but after I saw Mr. Cushing and Christopher Lee in the Hammer Films' Hound Of The Baskervilles, I thought he was the best.
@@judecash6918 they were cinema films
Cushing played Dr. Who?
There's something about Peter Cushing that is so Lovable ! Is it his skeletal face ? His mannerisms? His pleasant voice ?
From everything I have read, Peter Cushing was the sweetest man ,loving husband and gentleman. Thus he is my favourite Holmes for his warmth and manners. Understand the great affection and respect for for Brett and the production values at Granada TV. Holmes and the magnificent Dr Watson are two of the greatest characters in the anuls of literature.
Peter Cushing's best friend in real life was Christopher Lee and apparently, when they got together they would spend hours sitting in Cushing's private cinema watching Looney Toons Cartoons. 😊
Also, Cushing was a collector and paintet of Model Soldiers! 😊😊
Plasticine Soldiers filled with tomato sauce ?
And for his intelligence !
@robinhooper2190..I totally agree. Peter Cushing was the definitive Holmes. Rathbone was good until they kept pushing him into out of the 19th Century and into modern day movies. I liked Rathbone in Hound Of the Baskervilles.. However, Cushing's over the top hyper take on Holmes in the Hammer Films movie was much better. His long face and underfed demeanor fit my idea of what Holmes really looked like.
In the annals of Sherlockian lore, Basil Rathbone Peter Cushing were the GOATs.
❤Legend Peter Cushing is Brilliant as Holmes . Thank you for this wonderful and classic Movie.
❤
Peter Cushing was an excellent actor in whatever roles he had and there were many
Love watching him as Holmes
I totally agree with you cushing was excellent as Holmes
A wonderful videp Peter Cushing is wonderful
The best depiction of SH! Peter Cushing was so precise in all his roles. Thank you guys
If they made more episides, Peter Cushing would be my #1 Sherlock Holmes!
I concur if Peter cushing did
Do more of these films , he too would be my favorite
Though I do watch all of his sherlock Holmes stuff :-)
I can't say that for other actors in the said roles apart from my number one and favorite actor of said role basil rathbone, far as I am concerned he is sherlock Holmes:-)
They made several more but they are missing.
They made a lot of episodes of the series. Sadly, most were lost/destroyed.
@@dynamitedave1438 Sadly only 6 episodes are intact...the rest are missing/lost due to the BBC videotape wiping practice.
An unseen Holmes with the great Peter Cushing? How awesome is that?
Just got a call 🤙 I was wondering what you are looking forward for and how you feel and the next step
Been an avid Holmes fan since 1967 when I was 9 years old and discovered The Sign of the Four - The Granada Television Productions with Jeremy Brett are by far my favorites but Peter Cushing TRULY does the detective justice - MUCH kudos
Oh yeaah!
Outstanding production, Peter Cushing is right up there with Basil Rathbone and Jeremy Brett. Thank you for uploading.
Up and I will try to get in a good mood and I have been working ⚒ in a bit of an
This was great. Love Peter in anything. xx
I've got the DVD collection of the surviving episodes from this series. Peter Cushing was as good a Holmes as he was in Hammer Films' lush 1959 production of The Hound Of The Baskervilles (with Christopher Lee), and of course Cushing was simply good in everything he ever did.
Yes legendary
It was the generation he was born in...several great actors..took acting very seriously.
@@hudasaleem2151 9
Are these DVD's still available? 🤔
@@timdubeau9152 They should be. As far as I know they're still out.
Brett Rathbone Cushing Richardson R Howard Cumberbatch Downey Jr Miller ….. I LOVE EM ALL ❤
I love your attitude :)
Three things I feel were sad we never got in this life when it comes to movies:
1) A Ray Harryhausen produce War of the Worlds. He had a concept, but never was able to work on it.
2) That we went through the age of Black Exploitation films without one made about Yasuke the Black Samurai, a historical figure.
3) That for all their greatness and friendship, we had two legends like Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee walking this Earth, who played Sherlock Holmes in various movies, yet never worked together to duke each other as Holmes and Moriarty.
How crazy would that had been if we had gotten that?
Yes another great Sherlock Holmes story.
Thank you for sharing
God bless
Excellent story! Excellent cast!
Those who have played Sherlock Holmes since 1893:
Charles Brookfield - 1893
William Gillette - 1899-1930 - 1300 Performances over 30 yrs.
Sherlock Holmes movie Baffled - 1900 Silent/Short - Max Goldberg
John F. Preston - 1900
Charles Rice - 1904
Karoly Baumann - 1905
Maurice Costello - 1905
Viggo Larsen - 1908
Alwin NeuB - 1908, 1911, 1914
Otto Lagoni - 1910
Holger Rasmussen - 1911
Mack Sennett - 1911-1912
George Treville - 1912
Harry Benham - 1913
James Bragington - 1914
Francis Ford - 1914
H.A. Saintbury - 1916
Hugo Fink - 1917
Sam Robinson - 1918
Eille Norwood - 1921 Silent short movie - The Dying Detective
Burt Lytell - 1921
Dennis Neillson-Terry - 1921
John Barrymore - 1922
Hamilton Deane - 1923-1932
Tod Slaughter - 1928, 1930
Richard Gordon - 1930-1933, 1936
Clive Brook - 1929/1930/1932
Arthur Wontner - 1931- 1937 - Movie Series
Raymond Massey - 1931
Robert Rendel - 1932
Reginald Owen - 1933
Felix Alymer - 1933
Louis Hector - 1934-1935, 1937
Bruno Guttner - 1937, 1939, 1942-1943
Orson Welles - 1938
Basil Rathbone - 1939-1946
Cedric Hardwick - 1945
Tom Conway - 1947
Howard Marion-Crawford - 1948
John Stanley - 1948-1949
Alan Napier - 1949
John Longden - 1951
Laidman Browne - 1951
Carleton Hobbs - 1952-1969
Ronald Howard - 1954 (39 episodes)
Sir John Gielgud - 1954-1955
Peter Cushing - 1959, 1968, 1984
Christopher Lee - 1962, 1970, 1992
Douglas Wilmer - 1964
John Neville - 1965, 1970, 1978
Robert Stephens - 1970
Stewart Granger - 1972
John Cleese - 1973
Larry Hagman - 1974
Robert Powell - 1974
Rolf Becker - 1974
John Wood - 1974-1975
Leonard Nimoy - 1976
Kevin McCarthy - 1977
Roger Moore - 1976
Nicol Williamson - 1976
Christopher Plummer - 1977
Peter Cook - 1977
Paxton Whitehead - 1978
Geoffrey Whitehead - 1979-1980
Keith Mitchell - 1979
Graham Armitage - 1979-1980, 1985
Charlton Heston - 1980
Frank Langella - 1980
Vasily Livanov - Russian TV - 1979-1981, 1983 & 1986
John Moffatt - 1981
Guy Henry - 1982
Tom Baker - 1982
Ian Richardson - 1983
Peter O’Toole - 1983 (animated TV films - Australian)
Jeremy Brett - 1984-1994
Nicholas Rowe - 1984
Guy Rolfe - 1984
Dinsdale Landen - 1987
Tim Pigott-Smith - 1987
Anthony Higgins - 1987
Michael Pennington - 1987
Roger Rees - 1988
Ron Moody - 1988-1989
Clive Merrison - 1989-1998, 2002, 2004, 2008-2010
Edward Woodward - 1990
Simon Callow - 1990
Richard E. Grant 1992
Robert Powell - 1993
Patrick McNee - 1993
Anthony Higgins - 1993
1998-2019: John Gilbert - Episodes 1-18
Lawrence Albert - Episode 20
John Patrick Lowrie - Episodes 21-65 & 67-current
Dennis Bateman - Episode 66
Jason Gray-Stanford - 1999-2001 - Animation for Kids
Matt Frewer - 2000-2001
Joaquim de Almeida - 2001
Richard Roxburgh - 2002
James D’Arcy - 2002
Andrew Sachs - 2004
Rupert Everett - 2004
Jonathan Pryce - 2007
Javier Marzan - 2007
Roger Llewellyn - 2009
Ben Syder - 2010
Johnny Lee Miller - 2012-2019
Benjamin Lawlor - 2013
Igor Petrenko - Russian TV Series - 2013
Robert Downey Jr. 2009 & 2011
Benedict Cumberbatch - 2010-2016
Nicholas Briggs - 2010-2018
Christian Rode - 2010, 2014
Seamus Dever - 2014
Ian McKellen - 2015
Euan Morton - 2015
Gregory Wooddell - 2015
Paul Andrew Goldsmith - 2015-2016
Ewen Bremner - 2016
Jay Taylor - 2017-2018
Yuko Takeuchi - 2018 (HBO Asia - female ‘Holmes’)
Orlando Wells - 2018
Samuel Tady - 2011, 2014, 2017-2018 (Tady Bros. Productions/on YTube)
Johnny Depp - 2018 (animation)
Will Ferrell - 2018
Nicholas Boulton - 2020
Henry Cavill - 2020
Ethan Bell - 2020 (Fan Film on CZcams)
Ethan Thomas Jung - 2020 Fan Adv.
(Vagabond Repertory Theater Company-CZcams)
This list is not exhaustive. however, these are some of the
many actors who have played Sherlock Holmes on stage,
screen, radio and TV adaptations.
Thanks for posting!
Many great names on this list.
I quite like that Ronald Howard series!
I like Basil, Jeremy and modern SH Benedic
@@colinglass2749 : I started this project of discovering how many actors had
played the Holmes character in 2017/2018. My research came to an end in
2021. In that time I had listened to (radio) and/or watched (TV/movies) soooooooo
much Holmes.
1. Baffled 1900 - czcams.com/video/KmffCrlgY-c/video.html - silent film
2. William Gillette - silent 1916 (audio added 1936:
czcams.com/video/AklHzlu0KCc/video.html
3. Arthur Wontner 1931 movie: czcams.com/video/tQNU_kwOYNE/video.html
4. John Barrymore - silent 1922 - czcams.com/video/fbcnTt4Bh-s/video.html
5. Otto Lagoni - 1910 - silent - czcams.com/video/2q8qRmvhS0o/video.html
This was a really good episode for having a newer Sherlock.
Mr Cushing made a very good Holmes. I really enjoyed this video and hope that I can find more of them with Mr Cushing in them. Thank you for sharing this.
Peter Cushing is one of my favorite actors ever.. He just has that je ne sais quoi!
Cushing's Holmes shows tenderness that Holmes lacked...
This is an excellent version.
Too many departures from the original story.
@@carminemurray6624 Sure, but that has everything to do with how the two different media operate. TV shows versus novels.
Peter Cushing always an interesting actor to watch.
That was very good. Looking forward to seeing more with Peter Cushing. 👍
Peter Cushing was one of a kind great actor
Nobody can come even in vicinity of Brett. Brett is Brett. Perfect.
You're EXACTLY 💯 RIGHT.....
Jeremy Brett yes
I find the 1960s company of Peter Cushing (Holmes) and Nigel Stock (Watson) more congenial than the more celebrated and lauded 1980s pairing of Jeremy Brett and Edward Hardwicke. Cushing, in particular, is a delight. He embodies Holmes' sharp intelligence perfectly
God do I want that big coat with the hood that Holmes is wearing XD
I noticed it too, it's a gorgeous coat.
well this was a find - thanks you for the upload.
Rathbone is the best Sherlock Holmes of coarse but I give Cushing a close second.
Basil Rathbone was not coarse, how can you say that about him ?
Basil was quite refined of course.
The thumbnail for this video is a still=frame showing Cushing as Holmes looking through his magnifying glass, with his left eye enlarged from the distortion . . . and this very shot was spoofed in the zany comedy "TOP SECRET!" starring Val Kilmer -- produced and directed by the Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker team that made "AIRPLANE!" and the TV show "POLICE SQUAD" (which spawned the "NAKED GUN" movies). There's an elaborate scene in "TOP SECRET!" where Val Kilmer, as 'Nick Rivers', goes to an old bookstore, I think it was, where Cushing portrayed its proprietor, whom we first see inspecting something with a magnifying glass . . . only for him to pull the glass away, revealing that his enlarged eye actually IS enlarged! The entire scene is supposedly in a foreign, European nation, and the 'language' Cushing speaks is actually spoken backwards, as they filmed the scene in reverse and then played the footage forwards. It was as hilarious as it was brilliant. I suspect that the Z-A-Z guys were inspired by the shot of Cushing as Sherlock, looking through the magnifying lens, when they thought up that similar shot for their comedy.
Excellent stuff. Loved the animated sequence. Script Editor Donald Tosh was responsible for a sublime season of Dr Who too.
Love Peter Cushing.🥰🥰🥰
Fifty five years old but still brilliant
Not the best Holmes but not shabby, not at all, like his figure for Holmes, lean, could use a little more height, narrow face is spot on. Watson needs work or replacement, not bad but not near the other offerings we've seen. Bruce on, for me is my favorite but still in all there have been some good others. I don't think any yet have done full justice to Morarity, in present time I would be hard pressed to pick someone for the roll. Maybe not show Morarity at all, make him more of a shadowy villain, hidden by read newspapers or such, an overlord presence.
Note how these were shot on video for the interiors but film for the exteriors (the infamous BBC rule- see Monty Python for details ;) It's odd to see Peter Cushing shot in video after watching him on film for so many years. I have a fondness for this era of television, from Doctor who through Masterpiece Theater and Mystery. These British productions shot on video have their own look and texture to them, unmistakable.
Well this is my first time watching peter cushing , hope he's as good as basil rathbone ..... 🤔🤔🤔🤣
Enjoyed this series, as a long standing SH fan of the stories and novels, thanks for sharing it.
Re-watched THE WOMAN IN GREEN (1945) with Basil Rathbone, and he's got his cigarette case with him when he visits a bar with inspector Gregson and the bartender lights his cigarette and gives him the matches...later Holmes returns to the same bar with Hillary Brooke and they both smoke cigarettes...and when he goes to her apartment she offers him "Cannabis japonica, an oriental soporific" 😂 so it's not just the BBC and Cushing getting nauseated by the nearly omnipresent pipes, Holmes indulged in all manner of intoxicants, it goes all the way back to Conan Doyle.
"I was right, Mr. Holmes, you Are a difficult subject." (the woman in green hypnotist, before the law leads he away)
"Thank you."
Peter Cushing was top drawer but Basil Rathbone was the real deal. He managed to develop his character into multiple episodes with the advent of Dr. Moriarty.. and then there was the voice.
Brett
Jeremy Brett WAS Sherlock. A natural.
Peter cushing was a very good actor who died some time ago
Very good and i've never seen this before today.
They re-created your thumbnail with Peter Cushing in Top Secret! ...and they performed the whole scene backwards....Amazing!
I don't understand why anybody likes Basil Rathbone as Holmes. I find him awful real ham. Cushing is good as well as Brett.
Because rathbone had an extremely unique voice an he also had very sharp features which made him very suitable
One of the best!
Best Sherlock Holmes of all time. First to play Dr. Who. Actor in many of the Hammer Films with Christopher Lee. And his last great screen role in Star Wars. I managed to find 5 episodes on a DVD set. If there are any more, maybe they'll be on U Tube.
Brett borrowed heavily from Cushing, the same tropes, the same mannerisms (they even look alike). But i think Brett accentuated those traits, almost caricaturizing them, and that just made for a more vivid and outstanding Holmes IMO.
Jeremy Brett and Peter Cushing don't at all look. :)
Such sweet stories,
20:09 I just got the joke from 1984's Top Secret! scene in the Swedish bookstore. That magnifying glass joke is even more hilarious now, 37 years later...
and the dog barking and running backwards !
That was a good one! Enjoyed very much!
Man that Watson character just is the glich that ceeps me in a state of wonder what'll follow next ,one even can fill the gap created by only his dredfull name with dust swepped up fresh from the attic.🧟
Een klassieke acteur van the old English school Peter Cuahing
Nine years later he was commanding the Death Star.
Thank you for this!!
Nick Tate was born in Australia where he had a significant film & TV career before leaving for Britain & a similar career there
He was very well known here in Australia. Knew I recognised him. Saw him lot in the 70s.
As a Ballarat boy, it's great to have Mr Holmes point us out on a map.
Even if it's not a flattering reference, the Poms did export the cream of the dregs Down Under
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Not really dregs in many cases, since people were often transported down under for relatively minor offences by today’s standards, and anyway, it’s probably what produced the characteristically tough and universally admired qualities of you Aussies
@trustydiamond I have no proof, but more than happy to wish to be the ancestor of a "criminal " the stereotype of a father who stole a loaf of bread to feed his children.
The working class abandoned in a harsh environment months away from the English aristocracy, who could adapt and learn to make do, or perish, is what made us what we became, IMO.
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I love the sceene that sherlook use opium🤗🤗🤗
Hey. Never heard of this. Love Holmsie.
Now I fully understand Cushing's scene (as the owner of Swedish bookstore) in "Top Secret". About 20:09
Thanks for the upload
My great-grandfather Robert, came to Australia from England during the gold-rush in 1852. He left behind a wife in England and never returned.
But he met a lady here called Mary and they began a life together, having 6 children. 5 boys and a girl. All of the boys went to the first world war but the two youngest never came back. When my grandfather (who was the youngest of the surviving 4 children) was in his 20s ( the daughter and other two surviving sons were even older), my great-grandparents Robert and Mary finally…married. Yes that’s right, the children (now adults) were all illegitimate until then.
His first wife in England had finally died and so he was free to marry my great-grandmother.
This was something I discovered when doing a family history. Robert and Mary’s son Walter (my grandfather) passed away in his 70s in 1972. He was a character, hard worker and had no airs and graces.
But his wife, my Nanna Wynn, was a bit stuck up and very judgemental. She passed away in 1987, but how I wish she was here now so I could accidentally (on purpose) let it slip that I knew the truth; about her mother and father in law, and that several of her own grandchildren who had children outside of marriage and who were berated by her for it, were not the only ones in the family who had a skeleton in the closet!
Ohh i love Genealogy. But the fact that i don't even know my great grandfather's exact birth year. My grandfather was 1921 born and he was the eldest among 9 children, means my grandfather must've been born between 1890s to 1900s, around same time when Sir Doyle was writing Sherlock holmes short stories in London.
@@yashshah3484 just a little hint…the ‘sir’ in a person’s name ALWAYS goes with the first name not the family name.
His name was Arthur Conan-Doyle (though the hyphen is generally not used)
So he is referred to as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle or as Sir Arthur, but never ever as Sir Conan Doyle or Sir Doyle as you have.
here is some idea for others.
The British peerage, in order of precedence is:
*duke/duchess: the Duke/Duchess of Somewhere, both addressed as Your Grace.
marquess/marchioness: the Marquess/Marchioness of Somewhere, addressed as Lord/Lady Somewhere.*
Note that sometimes the French form Marquis is used (though never the feminine French title of Marquise). Marquess is an older and purely English form.
earl/countess: the Earl/Countess [of] Titlename, addressed as Lord/Lady Titlename
viscount/viscountess: the Viscount/Viscountess [of] Titlename, addressed as Lord/Lady Titlename.
baron/baroness: Baron/Baroness Titlename, addressed as Lord/Lady Titlename.*
*The titles of duke and marquess are almost invariably territorial, eg Duke of Devonshire, Marquess of Salisbury, etc. The titles of earl, viscount, and baron are most often associated with a territory, eg Earl of Pembroke, but can also be based on a family name, in which case the "of" is dropped, eg Earl Spencer. A baron’s wife is not typically titled a baroness, though she is addressed as Lady Titlename. Only a woman who is a baroness in her own right uses that title.*
The next two ranks are not peers, ie they do not sit in the House of Lords:
*baronet: addressed as Sir Firstname, his wife as Lady Surname.
knight: addressed as Sir Firstname, his wife as Lady Surname; a knighted female is addressed as Dame Firstname, her husband as Mr. Surname, ie he does not share the distinction of his wife.
Whereas a baronet title is hereditary, a knighthood is not inherited.*
For details on each rank as well as correct forms of address, these sites are recommended:
www.debretts.com/forms-of-address/titles.aspx
laura.chinet.com//html/titles02.html
@@PetroicaRodinogaster264 thanks for this. Not a native English speaker. But that can't be the excuse. Thanks for correcting
Alan from Space: 1999!
❤ thanks for posting
Wonderful, Cushing is always a joy to watch, one of several actors who were born to play the Great Detective. A lovely production but I am at a complete loss in trying to understand the purpose of extreme closeups of a face which completely fill the screen.
Why go beyond head and shoulders?
Very nice to watch and thanks
What in the world are we coming to...indeed Dear Watson, indeed.
Where did you find this old British program?
Amen to that.
Great!
Peter cushing and Basil Rathbone make any other interpretation of Holmes inedible
👏🏽👏🏽 Masterpiece !!!!!! 👏🏽👏🏽💕
I like Peter Cushing in horror movies but Basil Rathbone is the best Sherlock Holmes.
@17:21, the picture of blind justice isn't very blindfolded, methinks.
Very good version 👍👍🇺🇸
I love Peter Cushing and I love his brilliant acting and Scottish accent. He is good at playing Holmes, but Jeremy Brett is the absolute best one. He is Holmes, the definitve Holmes. It is good, I liked it. I remember from my childhood seeing Brett. I did not know his name but I remember him as Sherlock Holmes. Of course, I saw episodes with Peter Cushing and others too. In big films as well.But he is too nice. Holmes was a sociopath he did not treat Watson well. Here there were some minor things like not caring if Watson ate or making him pay but it was not too bad, really. He seemed to be too kind to poor Watson.
These two make an interesting pair.
Nick Tate went on to appear in Space 1999..
Peter Cushing disliked acting in this series. He felt the lack of rehearsal time hampered his performance.
Thanks🤩🤩💖
I liked Jeremy Brett but recently also John Howard. ❤❤
It's an inside joke that he called the horse "you black devil." The farm was the set of the tv series, Black Beauty.
the tv series did'nt come out until 4 years later
That's Nick Tate as James, who also played Eagle pilot Alan Carter on Space: 1999. Good story! I'm guessing it was something made for British television, since it was only 49 minutes, and all the interior shots were on video, while all the exterior shots were on film.
Yes. British television back then was wondwrful, unlike usa today. Very little tv commercials. 20-25 minutes of commercials here for a 60 minute show.
Good job Black Jack is not the excitable type , could make himself ill
I love these movies. I wish that someone would put the old Ellery Queens old movies out. I am not sure if I spelled it correct.
Come, dear. There will no interruptions now.
Perfect ending.
Peter Cushing was born the play the master detective.
So what gives with Sherlock smoking cigarettes instead of his usual pipe
He smokes cigs occasionally in the stories, and since the actor tended to get nauseous when smoking a pipe, he tended to switch to cigs some times.
thanks
Chemistry just isn't there, Basil rules
Is the young blond man Alan from Space 1999!
Peter Cushing really took the piss out of this image 20:10 in the film Top Secret.
I thought the exact same thing!
People who mistreat animals are the lowest forms of life.
Good!...
At 10:14, when the schoolgirl testifies, there's a stained glass showing a figure of Justice with all her accoutrements. She is of course blindfolded but it appears loose and it seems her head is tilted back so it looks like she's peeking out from under. Was this done on purpose 🤔 or was the artist just careless? 😄
Then at 17:26, Watson strikes a pose in front of it. 😂
Ripper yarn.
We should meet, I think I can help you insert more commercials into this video.
Isn’t that tony from space 1999